Watercolor Illustration with Japanese Influence

Overview

“With the choice of colors we determine the climate of our illustration, the feeling we want to convey. Let's think what colors we are going to use, let's try different combinations. ”

In this video lesson Flor Kaneshiro addresses the topic: We prepare the sheet and the color palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Illustration with Japanese Influence. Give your drawings an ancient identity with the Sumi-e painting technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“Preparing our sheet and colour palette Now we'll choose the colours we'll use and prepare the paper to start our project. Here I have the chromatic circle with the combinations. Often it's a good idea to not use the colours we see in reality but play a bit and create more interesting atmospheres or fantastic atmospheres, or, we can divide it into autumn, winter, summer and choose the colours based on this idea. Here, we have the chromatic circle, one of the combinations could be complementary opposites, for example, yellow, purple, red with green, and so on. We have triads of analogous colo...”

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Course summary for: Watercolor Illustration with Japanese Influence

• Level: Beginner
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• 52829 students
• 5 units
• 22 lessons (3h 15m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting